Infinite Loops

The chains of habits are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken

Habits are a central part of daily lives — be the architect of them rather than the victim

Framework of habits:

  1. Cue
  2. Craving / Prediction
  3. Response
  4. Reward

Behaviors that aren't rewarded do not become habits

When your environment changes your behaviors change

We tend to follow the path of least resistance — how do we make good habits easier and bad habits harder?

Make habits obvious, attractive, obvious and satisfying

Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore

You should often ask yourself “what is essential?”

Experiment and refine

We are creatures of imitation, this is usually a safe strategy but it gets us into trouble. The great quest is to figure out when to imitate and when to question

Imitating processes does not necessarily lead to the same outcomes

Questions over advice —> advice is brittle, very sensitive to circumstances. Questions are anti fragile

Ask yourself questions: